Bluegrass Creek

Luckily, I happen to know one of the partners at the Flying X Ranch, which was the traditional put-in for this run. Because the ranch is having insurance problems, you now have to sign waivers, pay a guest fee, and one of the partners has to be on the ranch the whole time your vehicle is on their property. Kind of pain, but the people at the ranch are in a bad position until they can get their insurance problems worked out. They can't even do horse drawn hay rides, so the problems are affecting them, too.

Anyhow, Bluegrass is a great run, the water is warm and the country is beautiful. Middle of nowhere Wyoming. Putting in at the Flying X makes this run a reasonable 3-4 hours, and at the levels we ran it (452 CFS) the III and IV sections are definitely IVs and the II goes by quickly. There were a number of good play waves with decent eddy service and cows to spectate. The V at the end is intimidating but it all went pretty straight forward in play boats.

All the movies are stripped down Windows Media (wmv) files -- between 750kb to 2MB. Would take a long time on dial up, just so you are warned . . .



Jesse the dog decided to escape the inside of my truck while we were chasing down Kit on the brunch hay ride.

Bad dog.
Kit and her dog.

Paige. . .
and Rus at the put-in.

Tom
Movie. Tom in the middle of the Bluegrass. This is fairly representative of most of the run, decent waves and big rocks.

Movie. Tom running one of the class IV drops in a canyon. You could run this whole section without scouting (and we ran the rest of the canyon without doing so) but there are definitely some holes you want to avoid.
Movie. Me pointing out the big hole in this drop.

Movie. "Classic Binge" = upside down
Movie. Scouting the Class V "Main Event." Tom describing how it goes down . . .

Movie. Full view of the stretch from above the last slide.
Movie. Full frontal of the big falls, scouting.

Movie. Me saying stupid things as I'm about to go do it, "I'd be the best baseball player in the game!"
Movie. The last log toss to check the line.

Movie. Tom with safety -- although it is probably fruitless, we tied tom into an anchor above (because you stand on a cliff above the falls and you can't get into the canyon the falls drops into) and gave him a throwbag.
Movie. Finally doing the big one.

Picture of the last slide.
The sign on the wall of Wycolo Lodge on the Wyoming Colorado border. We stopped here for eats on the way back home.









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